Recently many customers users vBB source and WordPress are flooded member (vbulletin forum) and spam commend (wordpress) as well as mass mail spam mail sent from the user forum to Vbulletin sent birthday or activation required members via email, while a number of member registration form must be mailed to 3 email to complete the registration of a member of any forum, and the number of users use Shared hosting on a server and some user use the two sources that very vulnerable of spam mail.

Now we start according to the title of this article:

Instructions on how to configure SMTP Google (Gmail.com) for vbulletin

1: You visit gmail.com to sign up for a free gmail account

2: After registration is complete, your settings are right above the inbox of your account, you can see the picture to know

In the Settings tab you turn to Tab POP / IMAP and enable pop / imap mail for your account, other configurations you can customize as you wish.

3: Access to the forum of your AdminCP vBulletin Options => Email Options in this section you must enable SMTP functionality to your forum

declare the parameters as follows

Set this option to yes to use an SMTP server thay the internal PHP mail () function. you select YES

SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com

SMTP Port: 465

SMTP Username: Your username gmail.com

SMTP Password: password Your login gmail.com

SMTP Secure Connection: TLS selected instead of selecting SSL

after you save the configuration and re-declare

Note: you should declare your mail and forum admin that your email is configured for SMTP

In this section, we will check the sent mail of the forum you have succeeded or not

Email the frame you enter an email and click send any (sent) (note that you must email to check the results of the forum mail sent to this email) then you have access to email declare to check for any receive test email sent or not, the title of the email will be vBulletin email Test.

Instructions on how to configure SMTP Google (Gmail.com) for WordPress